Gedeon Brolnitskyj

Gedeon Brolnitskyj
Gedeon Brolnitskyj
Church	Ruthenian Uniate Church
Installed	26 May 1601
Term ended	1618
Predecessor	Herman Zahorskyj
Successor	Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych
Orders
Consecration	6 August 1601; by Herman Zahorskyj
Personal details
Born	1528
Died	1618

Gedeon Brolnitskyj (Polish: Gedeon Brolnicki; 1528–1618) was a bishop of the Ruthenian Uniate Church and a monk belonged to the Lauryshava Monastery and since 1601 Archbishop of Polotsk.

Biography

In 1596 Brolnitskyj was an Orthodox Archimandrite of the Lauryshava Monastery (in today's Belarus) and converted from Orthodoxy to Greek Catholicism, signing an act of the Union of Brest.^[1]

On May 26, 1601 Gideon Brolicki was nominated Archbishop of Polotsk.^[2] On August 6, 1601, he was ordained bishop and remained as Catholic Uniate bishop till his death in 1618.

References

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^ Blazheyovsky D. Hierarchy of the Kievan Church (861-1996). - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1996. - P. 281.

External links

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbroln.html

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[2] Blazheyovsky D. Hierarchy of the Kievan Church (861-1996). - Lviv: Kamenyar, 1996. - P. 281.

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v t e Bishops of the Archeparchy of Polotsk–Vitebsk (Ruthenian Uniate Church)
German Gedeon Joasaphat Antonius Nicefor Gabriel Cyprian Leo Marcellus Porphyrius Sylvester Florian Jason Heraklius Gregor John Jacob Joseph Joasaphat Basilius
In 1839 Polotsk Uniate eparchy was dissolved by the Council of Polotsk